Awake is back?
Bloody good show!
A major reason I am so £#cked up is because I began reading those £#cking bloody things from age eleven.
But of course, reading Awake is the equivalent of a university degree!
Rivergang
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Awake is back! India used in every illustration???
by JWTom inas someone else noted.
why is the new awake a setting in india in every illustration?.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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Rivergang
Adjoining hotel rooms with an interconnecting door, plus very similar arrangements in The Judge’s private railway carriage? (And they very definitely weren’t married!)
What was that about an unmarried couple being “under the same roof for the entire night”? Certainly enough to get mere mortals disfellowshipped - these days, anyway.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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Rivergang
Documented proof?
The bastard was too cunning to leave much if any of that around. There is, though, circumstantial evidence aplenty that he loved his booze. Also, his conduct with certain female staff members would have been enough to get him disfellowshipped in the JW world of today.
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Remembering Rutherford
by Sea Breeze inhe seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.
rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.
[220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .
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Rivergang
Do technologies exist for all electric power in the USA to be produced solely from renewable energy sources at low cost? What about automobiles needing only a little gasoline or even not needing gasoline at all? Back in the year 1928 Rutherford said YES to both of these questions
One thing you would have to credit Judge Joseph Boozerford with, he certainly knew how to tell a good story (and some of it could even have been true!)
Typically, that spiel he made in Government was long on extravagant claims, but very short on actual detail. There have been many crackpot ideas about how to run an internal combustion engine on a minute amount of fuel, but these all have one thing in common - they don't work. Also, in Rutherford's time, the technology simply was not there to harness wave action for the generation of a usable supply of electricity (bloody hell, I would have hated to see the waveform that resulted from those efforts!) No wonder he failed to mention which US Patents were involved.
As others here have already noted, Rutherford - the typical religious charlatan - was certainly full of it.
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Rivergang
Although in my mid-sixties, I am still working full time for an Electrical Engineering firm - although in a role best described as that of a "Busted @$$ Electrician".
In fact, during the last ten years, I have three times actually gone back "on the tools", but of late am mainly in the office. There have, though, been some lengthy visits to site (open-cut mining), with another one coming up next month. My involvement there was (and will be) with the high voltage switching activities.
Looking ahead, I can see myself remaining in the workforce for some considerable time yet to come. According to my employer, that is most likely going to involve a training role in High Voltage Switching and Isolations. To that end, I am presently studying towards attaining Certificate IV in Training and Assessments.
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This is how stupid college kids are today
by mickbobcat innot only college kids but a lot of liberal idiots adults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knh46tlcwm.
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Rivergang
Pinus radiata doesn't even make good toilet paper.
That is why Asaleo Care's papermill at Kawerau in New Zealand has to import woodpulp from as far away as Brazil. Only when the local product is blended with a generous amount of imported pulp can a half-decent tissue paper be made.
Otherwise, the bloody stuff grows like a weed!
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Do You Know Of Anyone That Has Seen A Therapist Because Of Being A Witness?
by minimus ini really don’t know of many people who got into therapy because of their jw dealings but i would think that if someone remains depressed or severely affected by their past witness life, it’s not a bad idea to speak to someone to get you on the right path.
i think this site has been very therapeutic for many over the years..
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Rivergang
At the risk of sounding disrespectful, I would have thought this a rather obvious question.
Turning matters around just a little, I once knew a therapist whose clientele included a number of active JWs (ie ones who were at least physically still in).
This therapist observed that amongst her JW clients, abuse of women was a common theme.
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Constantine
by HowTheBibleWasCreated inthe fact that the majority of the world jumps when you say 'god' is traced back to one guy.
constantine, this is the one man that made christianity the official religion rome thus masking the beliefs of people until the reformation a literal hell.. oh yes mohamed knew his teaching later.. when you say 'god' as if other people are supposed to be impressed you owe that to constantine.
not a mythical figure named jesus, .
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Rivergang
Constantine made Christianity the official religion of Rome?
I seem to recall hearing such claims while I was a JW. However, it was in fact the Roman emperor Theodosius who did that. Constantine was well disposed towards Christianity, but only converted to it while in his deathbed. He certainly never made it the state religion.
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Interesting Find with Chronology
by Kelley959 ini hope this is in the right area.
i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.
for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.
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Rivergang
Something happened in 1975?
Certainly did!
Franz - just like Rutherford some 50 years earlier (i.e.1925 ) - “made an ass” of himself.
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Australian ex-JW claims to be Jesus
by Mum ina man named a, j. miller, who lives in queensland, australia, claims to be jesus.
i saw it on a youtube video of "60 minutes australia, he was formerly a "jehovah's witness minister" according to the video.
he has bought a large tract of land, with the help of his followers.
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Rivergang
That research paper purporting to be from the University of Hamburg definitely sounds suspicious. All the more so when a newspaper in such a prominently "theocratic" country as Pakistan even writes it off as a fraud.